A Quote by Violet Chachki

Drag is all about taking references, taking pop culture and flipping it on its head.

Violet Chachki

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Violet Chachki
American - Entertainer
Born: July 13, 1992

My favorite thing about drag is taking one idea and flipping it on its head entirely.

Sasha Velour

People always say I write a lot of pop culture references. Can somebody please count the pop culture references in 'Firefly?' Because I don't know how to put this to you, but there was one. I referenced The Beatles in the pilot.

Joss Whedon

Probably I'm more of a fan of the literary references than the pop-culture references. But I do go to the pop-culture well quite frequently because people, I think, are sort of inherently ready to laugh at that. It's a free laugh almost. Usually, everybody gets it.

Adam Reed

There's something retro about the pop culture references in the paintings, so I'd imagine it's not as much a pop culture reference as a pop art reference.

Joe Bradley

It's hard to make a lot of pop culture references where there's no pop culture.

Eric Kripke

There might be an Easter egg in there that I'm missing [in Timeless], I'll have to look again, but there are pop culture references, for sure. There are a lot of references that you would only understand if you've seen the movie The Untouchables.

Misha Collins

That's what I like about [smoking] . . . taking a drag off of death, Mmm! Gives me a sense of controlling my own destiny. What power! What exhilaration! Want a drag?

Beth Henley

For me, drag is about two things - confidence and glamour. Drag is about using artiface and illusion to tap into the self-confidence we all have. And glamour is about taking what you have naturally and showcasing in a way that makes you feel good. It's truly a practice in faking it until you make it.

Violet Chachki

I don't see a lot of studio executives caring at all about what the culture is telling us. They think they make the culture. They're not out taking the temperature of things and using the results of whatever sort of cultural surveying they're doing to make movies. They're interested in doing things that people are already comfortable with, and taking those properties and filling them.

Wesley Morris

I'm taking a lot of freestyle music and flipping it.

Pitbull

I find pop art really offensive because it's taking a piece of popular culture and putting it somewhere where people can't see it.

Rebecca Sugar

Trends in fashion, design and pop culture are taking on more global influence, and of course, one thing that's always in style is color.

Brad Goreski

I put so much pop culture in my movies because we speak about pop culture all the time. But, for some reason, movies exist in a world where there's no pop culture.